This is the "Schools Page" of this Indigo site. If you are a school and you wonder how your name got here, it was due to a parent or teacher at your institution who recommended it. It does not mean that you buy into any weird idea of their being a new type of strange, psychic kid on the earth, or that your school endorses anything on this website or on the many documentaries and movies that have been released recently regarding the Indigo Children. It simply means that you have a school that honors children in their life's path, and that someone thought enough to put you on this list. If, however, you don't want to be included, just let us know and we will remove you (contact at the bottom of this page).

In the first Indigo book, we supplied suggestions regarding two existing worldwide alternate schooling systems for the Indigo children. This page not only identifies each of them, but gives you many, many more from other sources.

By "alternate," we meant an alternative choice from existing systems that are in-place but failing to see the changing needs of the new children. Not all public schools are poor for Indigos, and we have actually seen tremendous changes of awareness in isolated (usually smaller) schools due to an advanced thinking superintendent, or a system which allows the teachers great flexibility.

We celebrate these efforts, but alas, this is not the norm. We told you that ultimately we'd like to have a list of schools all over the world, listed by country and city. This web page is a start to that, providing a way to view expanded or NEW information.

Now, this is where YOU come in. If you feel there are some existing systems that we should have included, or you have information about wonderful Indigo-type schools in your city, go ahead and Email us. If your suggestion is viable, then we will include it on this web site. The list of schools from readership is the last section on this page

JUST FOR PARENTS:(2007) We are a new community website providing tools to parents for finding like-minded parents, either locally or online, to create parenting groups (ex: playgroups, moms groups), to exchange children activity suggestions, or to give or receive parenting advice. http://www.raisingthem.com/resources/parenting.html

HOME SCHOOLING! Many of you have endorsed homeschooling as a viable alternative for anything you would see below. We agree! Not all can do this, however, but if you are interested, start here: http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/.

The AERO is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 by education expert Jerry Mintz to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world. AERO provides information, resources and guidance to families, schools and organizations regarding their educational choices. AERO advises on topics such as: home schooling, public and private alternative schools, and charter schools.

Something Good in the World, Inc. is an affiliated group of concerned teachers and parents seeking to improve the situation of education in America. As a team, we bring together our collective experience and knowledge to try to offer the best possible educational alternatives for children, teachers, and parents.Something Good in the World, Inc. provides services to the public in the form of educational programs for children of all ages and backgrounds. These programs include a wide variety of extracurricular, alternative, and curriculum-based programs, in schools and outdoors, in private and public spaces that extend to homeschooled children, children with learning differences and children in underserved areas. The activities range from academic arts-integrated and outdoor education programs for Pre-K through Grade 12, to creative arts workshops and field trips for teens, to music and storytelling for families, to community garden and landscape projects for all ages.

CBEA offers Consciousness-Based education (CBESM) to enliven the full creative potential and inner happiness of every student and teacher, eliminate stress, and enliven total brain functioning. The key technologies of this program are the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs.

Last updated - March 2008

As
Written in the Indigo Children Book: A Review
What kind of school would be an alternate, you might ask? The main
attributes of such schools are easy to spot and very fundamental.
They are as follows:

The
students are honored, not the system.

The
students are offered reasonable choice regarding how the lessons
are presented, and at what speed.

The
curriculum is flexible from class to class, often changing due
to WHO is doing the LEARNING in a certain group.

The
children and teachers are responsible for setting the learning
standard, not the system.

Teachers
have great autonomy within their own student groups.

Old
educational paradigms are not worshiped. New ideas are welcome.

Tests
are constantly changed and re-worked to fit the skills and awareness
of the information being taught and absorbed. (Nothing is worse
than a very bright child taking an old test that is far beneath
them. They often will misunderstand or discard it mentally,
and therefore fail it. The tests must evolve with the student's
awareness.)

A
constantly changing way of doing things is the norm throughout
the history of the institution.

It's
probably controversial.

In
the book we mentioned two systems that have come to our attention:
This web site will allow you to preview their locations, and is
very current (since it often takes you to their sites). There are
also a few more that have come in that we have checked out.

The Montessori Schools
"Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize,
but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core."

Maria Montessori

The Montessori school system is perhaps the most widely known school of its type. With a lineage that started in Rome with Dr. Montessori's day care center in 1907, these wonderful schools blossomed into an American nationwide system of licensed schools and educators that feature children as "independent learners." The American Montessori Society (AMS) was eventually founded in 1960. Their unique application of revolutionary teaching methods seems to have been written to match what we have all been describing as necessary for the Indigo children's education.

The
Waldorf School / Rudolf Steiner School"Waldorf Schools are in the most impressive way concerned with quality in
education. All schools would do well to become knowledgeable about
the philosophy that underlies Waldorf education."Dr. Boyer - Director of the Carnegie Foundation for Education

In
the year 1919, the first Waldorf school in the world opened
in Stuttgart, Germany. The first Waldorf school in North America,
the Rudolf Steiner School of New York, was opened in 1928. Today
it is reported that the Waldorf education is the largest and fastest
growing nonsectarian educational movement in the world, with 550
schools in over thirty countries. The movement is very strong
in Western Europe, especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
and in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries.
There are approximately 100 schools in North America.

"Entering
a Waldorf school is like passing through Alice's looking-glass
into an educational Wonderland. It is a surprising, sometimes
disorienting world of fairy tales, myths and legends, of music,
art, physics demonstrations, class plays and seasonal festivals,
of workbooks written and illustrated by students, a world without
exams, grades, computers or televisions. It is, in short, a world
where most of the standard ideas and practices of American Education
have been stood on their heads."

"In
1968 a unique experimental school was established in Framingham,
Massachusetts. Sudbury Valley School, which is open to students ages 4 to 19, has pioneered a number of highly innovative practices. Its work has gained wide recognition, and it has the distinction of being the first such school ever to be fully accredited.

One
of the most interesting aspects of Sudbury Valley is its attitude
toward learning. The school starts from a premise stated by Aristotle
over 2000 years ago in his famous opening to the Metaphysics:
'Human Beings are naturally curious.' This implies that people
learn constantly, as an innate part of living. It means also that
children will learn through following their natural inclinations,
doing what they want with their time, all day, every day. Regardless
of their ages, from the moment students enter the school, they
are on their own, forced to take responsibility for themselves
and make all the tough decisions that will determine the course
of their lives." *

FROM THE READERSHIP
Here it is: Information from interested parents and teachers about
schools and school systems that either match the criteria we have stated for Indigos, or that come very close to it. If you are a school official, and you wonder how your school's name got here, it's due entirely to a parent or teacher or personally took the time to reccommend it from personal experience.